Publication Type
Encyclopaedia
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
1-2010
Abstract
Doxastic logic, beginning with Hintikka’s Knowledge and Belief. An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions (1962. Cornell University Press), studies relations between propositions about what we believe. Using ‘a’ as a proper name like ‘Ann’, ‘→’ for ‘if’ as opposed to material implication, propositional variables such as ‘p’, ‘q’ and ‘B’ to represent the two-place relation, ‘ . . . believes that . . . ’.
Discipline
Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Key Terms in Logic
First Page
47
Last Page
47
ISBN
9781847061140
Publisher
Continuum
City or Country
London
Citation
WILLIAMS, John Nicholas, "Logic, Doxastic" (2010). Research Collection School of Social Sciences. Paper 1745.
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1745
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1745
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https://worldcat.org/isbn/9781847061140